Horatio G. Sickel

Horatio Gates Sickel (3 April 1817-17 April 1890) was a US Army Major-General who commanded the Union 3rd Brigade, Kanawha Division during the American Civil War.

Biography
Horatio Gates Sickel was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1817, a distant relative of his namesake, Horatio Gates. He worked as a coachmaker and lamp manufacturer before volunteering for the Union Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861, becoming a colonel of the Pennsylvania Reserves in May 1861. His regiment was attached to the Army of the Potomac during the Seven Days Battles, and he also fought at the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Fredericksburg. After Fredericksburg, he was promoted to divisional command, and he stayed in Alexandria, Virginia until 1864. That year, he joined George Crook's division in West Virginia, distinguishing himself at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain. On 21 October 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he was wounded in the left thigh at the Battle of Hatcher's Run in 1865. On 13 March 1865, he was promoted to Major-General, but another wound at the Battle of Quaker Road forced him to have his arm amputated. He went on to become Health Inspector for the Port of Philadelphia, as a tax collector, and as a railroad president, and he died in 1890.